August 9, 2010

The Mountain Press ■ Sevier County’s Daily Newspaper ■ Vol. 26, No. 221 ■ August 9, 2010 ■ www.themountainpress.com ■ 75 Cents

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Planners to consider unusual request

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Meeting set for Tuesday, 5:30 p.m.

5 Knox family suffers loss

By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer

Cheryl Beckett was one of 10 medics killed in Afghanistan NATION, Page A14

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Jackie Williams, left, and Renee Hurst water their horses Wendy and Sugar during a benefit wagon train event Saturday.

5Tim’s sporting a new do Tebow, Bronco rookies have a hair-razing experience SPORTS, Page A9

Business

International award Local ventrioloquists Bob, Marty Hamill win W.S. Berger Award Page A2

Weather

Old-fashioned horse cents Wagon train helps raise money for an ailing neighbor

By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer HENRY TOWN — When the people of the Henry Town community found out one of their neighbors was facing a life-threatening battle, they literally circled the wagons as they stood by his side in the fight for survival.

No, it’s not a story from the days when Sevier County was part of the “wild west” – it was just this

past weekend. And Leon Williams isn’t facing roving marauders but rather is struggling to recover from problems with his gall bladder that doctors said put him just a day from the graveyard and buried him under $85,000 in bills so far.

Folks driving in the area Saturday might have gotten a surprise to find the lanes blocked at times by the wooden rollers, but if they had followed the steady

trail of road apples back to the big open field at the back of Hurst Hollow Road, they would have seen a most amazing site. There, for four days, a tent city popped up, filled with as many grazing horses as milling people.

The fundraiser for Williams lasted the whole weekend, starting with dinner and a singing on Friday evening. There was the wagon train on Saturday that took See HORSE CENTS, Page A5

Off to the (midnight) races Pigeon Forge run a unique experience

Today Partly cloudy High: 94°

Tonight Partly cloudy Low: 69° DETAILS, Page A6

Obituaries Stella Johnson, 79 Sammie Sellers, 68 William Knall, 89 Ben Russell, 67 Maisie Gibson, 84 DETAILS, Page A4

Index Local & State . A1-A4,A6 Calendar . . . . . . . . . A18 Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . . . A7 Sports . . . . . . . . . . . A8,A9 Business . . . . . . . . . A2,A3 Advice . . . . . . . . . . . A17 Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . A17 Classifieds . . . . . A14-A16 Nation . . . . . . . . . . A4,A5 World . . . . . . . . . . . . A10

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By DEREK HODGES Staff Writer PIGEON FORGE — Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight run of 421 East Tennesseans on the thirty-first of July in oh-10.

Unlike Paul Revere’s trot through the streets of Boston years ago, the participants in the Pigeon Forge 8K weren’t carrying news of landing British forces but hopes of a strong finish and visions of a trophy.

After a hiatus of a few years, the Knoxville Track Club has revived the popular event, which sent runners pounding the pavement down the Parkway and back in the dead of the night. They did it because people missed the event, which is unique in the area.

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Participants in the revival of the midnight Pigeon Forge 8K are a blur as they leaving the starting line during the event.

Knoxville, especially among some of the elite runners,” co-organizer David Morris explained. “There are a lot of people who really like that race. Even the city leaders were excited to have it back and were extremely helpful with get-

ting everything together. It’s just a good, popular race.”

Morris, who is a member of the leadership board of the Knoxville Track Club, has been involved See MIDNIGHT, Page A5

SEVIERVILLE — Yet another potential issue has arisen for local folks looking to score a better rate by refinancing their homes in the midst of the housing struggle.

On the agenda for the Sevier County Planning Commission’s meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the courthouse is a rare request to move a property down in zoning, with Donald Hite asking that the county change land he owns at 111 South Old Sevierville Pike from C-1 (rural commercial) to R-1 (rural residential).

That’s quite a big step and an unusual one, given that most who submit such petitions are looking to move their properties up to allow them to develop things such as apartment buildings and retail locations. It may become more common as more people look at refinancing as a way to save some money each month, though.

County Planner Jeff Ownby explains Hite was in the middle of working with his bank to secure a lower rate when he encountered a problem.

Hite previously asked the commission to raise the zoning on his land to C-1 to allow him to operate a business on the site.

However, when he went to the financier to ask for a new look at his mortgage, he was told the loan couldn’t be negotiated while the commercial zoning was in place.

“I haven’t heard of a lot of situations like this, but there have been some,” Ownby says. “These people are being told they can’t refinance their home because the property is zoned commercial, even though residential uses are allowed in that zoning.”

Ownby explains that some governments don’t allow people to live in areas designated for business use. Apparently some banks have taken that policy to heart, worrying that they might refinance See PLANNERS, Page A4

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Ventriloquist Knowles no dummy when it comes to the martial arts

By JEFF FARRELL Staff Writer

work out on the schedule of an entertainer, even for one who works at a single location such as Knowles does at the Comedy Barn.

SEVIERVILLE — If ventriloquist Knowles performs almost every Stephen Knowles’ dummies start to night. He said he tried to keep up with talk back, he’ll know what to do. The Comedy Barn performer is working on a workout schedule of his own, and to work out at his old dojo in Nashville a second degree black belt in his secwhen he went home, but he wasn’t ond martial art.

Knowles started taking Tae Kwon Do pursuing it as much as he once did.

That changed when his wife, 25 years ago, when he was 15.

“That was right around the time the Heather, and their 6-year-old daughter, Stephanie, decided to start taking first ‘Karate Kid’ movie come out and lessons at Ott’s Family Karate in downlike a lot of kids I got interested in town Sevierville. marital arts because of that,” he said.

Master Cliff Ott teaches Tae Kwon He practiced for years, and obtained a second degree black belt in the mar- Do as well as Tang Soo Do. Like Tae tial arts before he got serious about his Kwon Do, Tang Soo Do comes from Korea — but it originated farther career in entertainment.

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Stephen Knowles practices martial arts with his daughter, Stephanie, and wife, Heather.

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UT-Knoxville ranked among top 15 percent of nation’s colleges Submitted Report

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Above, CNB employees, from left, Rebekah Moore, Chrissy Cowan, Stephanie Flatt and Anne Hewitt attended the Old Bags & Tea event on Aug. 3. At right, Betty Ogle displays her haul from the benefit.

Second Old Bags & Tea event raises $1,800 for Alzheimer’s Association two Nantahala Outdoor Center rafting certificates; Dollywood day-passes, Dixie Stampede dinner-passes, dinner for two at Legend’s, a $25 gas gift certificate from Chambers Market, Bellacino’s Grinders, tickets to the Tennessee Shindig, Knoxville Zoo tickets, Firehouse Subs, tanning at

Velocity Tan and more.

Nineteen volunteers bought and made the appetizers, sandwiches and desserts. Nine volunteers worked the event before, during and after.

The Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk will be held Saturday, Oct. 16.

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SEVIERVILLE— More than $1,800 was raised for the Alzheimer’s Association at Citizens National Bank’s second annual Old Bags & Tea event Aug 3.

The event was held at the Courthouse Plaza, next to CNB’s Main Office, where 100 percent of the money raised benefited the Alzheimer’s Association.

Several people attended the auction of gently used handbags and wallets that were donated for the fight against Alzheimer’s. From Louis Vuitton and Versace, to Prada and Burberry, patrons could find it all.

Lunch was also served and door prizes were awarded. “A lot of hard work went into making this a great

success thanks to the teamwork of CNB employees,� said CNB Assistant Vice President Stephanie Flatt, who organized the event. “We appreciate the support we received from so many people in the community who attended the event and purchased items to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association.�

Among items available were more than 60 donated bags and four handbags donated from Coach headquarters valued at more than $600.

Other donations included one studio session and a portrait from Gary Woods Photography, a $50 gift card each to Bullfish Grill, Carino’s Italian, Blue Moose Burgers & Wings, and Mellow Mushroom;

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KNOXVILLE — The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is a “very affordable� and “dynamic� university with “excellent research facilities� and “ample undergraduate research opportunities,� according to The Princeton Review annual ratings released this week.

UT is among only 15 percent of the nation’s four-year colleges and universities to be included in the new 2011 edition of “The Best 373 Colleges� and also was listed as one of the best colleges in the Southeast by The Princeton Review, one of the nation’s top education service and evaluation companies.

For the third year in a row, The Princeton Review also recognized UT Knoxville for its environmental efforts.

The campus’ rating for green initiatives moved up a couple spots from last year. The Princeton Review also highlighted UT’s “vol spirit� and that “practically every campus group lives up to the ‘Volunteer’ name by donating time and

resources to our campus and community.� UT’s student body is “friendly� and “very school spirited.� Knoxville was described as “a great college town.� “This recognition reflects our continued efforts to strengthen the quality and value of an education from UT Knoxville,� Chancellor Jimmy G. Cheek said. “Providing a world-class education is critical as we pursue our quest to make UT Knoxville a Top 25 public research university.�

Central to UT Knoxville’s environmental efforts is the Make Orange Green program, which has been recognized across the state and nation as one of the top campus environmental programs.

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Blackwood Show’s Hamills win top ventriloquist award Submitted Report FORT MITHCELL, Ky. — Bob and Marty Hamill, who entertain six mornings a week at the Blackwood Breakfast Variety Show in Pigeon Forge, got a very pleasant surprise when they attended the 34th International Vent Haven Ventriloquist Convention.

The Hamills were presented with the highest honor a ventriloquist can receive, The W.S. Berger Distinguished Service Award. There were more 450 ventriloquists from 12 countries attending the convention.

“There are very few people who are even nominated for this award. It is given to ventriloquists who have excelled not only in the art of ventriloquism but in the way it is presented,” said Executive Director Mark Wade. “Bob and Marty Hamill are overdue for this

presentation. Bob has long been a goodwill ambassador for the art of ventriloquism.”

Bob met Marty on a cruise ship where he was an entertainer and she was the ship’s nurse. He recognized talent and made her a part of the act. Since then they have performed all over the world. Many times when they visited ports of call, they would bring their puppets into the country and entertain orphanages or hospitals in the area.

The Hammills have been part of the Fee/Hedrick Family Entertainment Group since 1998. They started at the Comedy Barn and joined the Blackwoods five years ago.

“We are living the dream,” said Bob. “We are with one of the most inspirational groups of all time, we have the greatest audiences and

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Bob and Marty Hamill, who entertain six mornings a week at the Blackwood Breakfast Variety Show in Pigeon Forge, were presented with the highest honor a ventriloquist can receive, The W.S. Berger Distinguished Service Award. Ventriloquists from 12 countries attended the convention in Fort Mitchell, Ky. we’re finished at noon.”

Bob is about to launch the Pigeon Forge version of the Bob Hamill Variety Show.

“It will be a show of entertainers who need a place to hone their art,” he said. “It was so important in my early career to have a place to perform,

we played anywhere people needed entertainment.

Entertainers need a place to be bad before they get good. I want to give young and older performers the chance to be in front of the microphone. Details of the Variety Show will be announced in a week or two.”

ETTAC seeks old computers to help disabled clients Submitted Report KNOXVILLE — The East Tennessee Technology Access Center wants your old computer in order to help clients with disabilities.

ETTAC will accept Pentium IV computers or newer. All computers must be in good working condition.

The staff adapts computers with specialized software and hardware that are then given or loaned to clients with disabilities to enable them to become more productive.

Hard drives will be wiped clean before distribution. All

donations are tax deductible.

Computers can be dropped off at ETTAC’s new Knoxville office located at 116 Childress St., Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. Call 219-0130 for directions or

for further information about eret.org/ettac.

ETTAC’s programs, or visit ETTAC is a regional nonthe Web site at www.discov- profit agency that helps peoeret.org/ettac” www.discov- ple with disabilities.

SEVIERVILLE — The Tennessee Hospitality Association awarded Trevor Townsend the Outstanding Restaurant Manager of the Year for an Independent Restaurant at the 2010 TnHA Stars of the Industry Awards.

The Association recognizes truly unique employees who inspire their co-workers and create unique hospitality to make Tennessee special.

Townsend was nominated for the award due to his history of dedication and care for the hospitality industry.

Townsend joined Stokely Hospitality Enterprises in April of 1988. He currently manages the Applewood Farmhouse Grill located at 220 Apple Valley Road.

Described as well-liked, dependable and honest, he is a devoted employee who emphasis’s his time and energy to ensure a job well done. When asked, employees said he is not just a manager but a friend who gives his best and expects the best of others.

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History has shown that his hard work and determination for success has earned him the respect and admiration of his staff and fellow managers.

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obituaries

N ATIO N BRIE F S Colin weakens to depression

In Memoriam

Stella M. Johnson

Stella M. Johnson, age 79 of South Knoxville passed away on Friday August 6, 2010 to be with her Lord. She was a loyal member of Fellowship Baptist Church.

Stella was preceded in death by her husband, Cloyd (Woots) Johnson, parents, Loy and Maude Ownby, brother, R.L. Ownby, twin sisters, Betty Sue and Bonnie Lou Ownby.

Survivors: siblings, Louise Large and husband W.C., Eula Nichols and husband Rex, Mayford Ownby and wife Avanell, Rex Ownby and wife Cynthia, Mary Jean Thomas and husband Paul; uncle, Rev. Clell King and wife Betty Jean King; sister-in-law, Jean Burnette; brother-in-law, Alferd “Jake� Johnson and wife Helen; best friend, Sue Clark; several nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Fellowship Baptist Church, 1204 John Sevier Highway, Knoxville, 37920.

Funeral service 7 p.m. Monday in Atchley’s Seymour Chapel with Rev. Jack Cooper and Rev. Elbert Deadrick, Jr. officiating. Family and friends will meet 10 a.m. Tuesday at Woodlawn Cemetery for graveside service and interment. Nephews will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m. Monday at Atchley Funeral Home, Seymour. 122 Peacock Ct. (577-2807)

MIAMI (AP) — Colin has weakened to a tropical depression Bermuda and was expected to dissipate later Sunday.

Colin’s maximum sustained winds were about 35 mph Sunday. The storm’s center was passing near Bermuda, but it steered clear of a direct hit.

A tropical storm watch is still in effect for the British territory, which could see 1 to 3 inches of rain and battering waves.

Wild hog herds spreading in Kentucky OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — State wildlife officials say herds of wild hogs are spreading in Kentucky, but a booking agent for hunters says he can’t find enough of the animals to justify bringing in clients to hunt them.

A state survey in 1998 found wild hogs in only two counties in southeastern Kentucky, said Chad Soard, a state wildlife biologist. By 2005, he said, they were spotted in seven counties, including Muhlenberg

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a home in a commercial area that should not be there.

As a result, they’ve implemented regulations that forbid their loan officials to authorize such mortgages. They’ve spread those across the board, meaning folks such as Hite find themselves stuck unless they’re willing to go through the process to

and Christian in western Kentucky, the Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer reported.

By 2008, herds were reported in 15 to 17 counties, and now “we’ve documented them in 32 counties and we suspect them in another dozen or so,� Soard said.

Escapees believed near Yellowstone

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal authorities say two men who escaped from a private Arizona prison and a woman thought to have helped them are believed to be in the area around Yellowstone National Park.

The U.S. Marshals Service says information has developed within the past two days that indicates Tracy Province, John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch may be hiding in portions of the park that span Montana and Wyoming.

Authorities say it’s now believed Province has separated from McCluskey and Welch.

The manhunt intensified after forensic evidence linked at least one of the inmates to the killings of an Oklahoma couple in New Mexico earlier this week.

have the zoning moved down, as he’s doing. “It’s just certain lending institutions that are sticky like that,� Ownby says.

In some of the other cases that have come before planning officials, folks who own a home on the same lot as their business have been forced to subdivide their parcels into two to dodge the rule.

That has equalled out to one loan for the business and another for the home, though that move is not

possible if the business is located in the home.

Also on the agenda for Tuesday’s meeting is: Rezoning request n From Dan Smith for the old DeLozier farm on Kodak, McCleary and Rays Gap roads from A-1 (agricultural) to R-2 (high-density residential) Concept plat review n For the same property, a plan to divide 76.9 acres into 27 tracts on both sides of McCleary Road

Minor plat review n Morano property, a five-lot subdivision of 7.75 acres on Which-a-Way Site plan review n Gregory P. Fintak, a plat of a proposed addition to one of two existing metal buildings at 1485 Boyds Creek Highway n Greentop cell tower, changes to the site of an existing telecommunications structure at 3102 Green Top Road.

been keeping up with a workout routine, but he said he’s had fun learning new techniques. “It’s been fantastic,� he said. “It’s awesome. Once it gets in your blood it’s hard to get out.�

The discipline it’s given him has helped him with his other passion — entertaining.

He said he wanted to be an entertainer just about all his life.

He became interested in ventriloquism after he got a dummy as a Christmas present — one of the things he’d circled in the back of a

Sears catalogue many years ago. Soon, he found he had a knack for it and he found he liked being an entertainer.

Now, he’s enjoying the chance to be an entertainer without having to travel around the country, and he’s getting to engage in his second passion with his family. His son, Max,

is still a little too young for classes but is already practicing after seeing everybody else doing it, he said.

He hopes to see more people, young and old, give it a try. “I just want to encourage people to get involved,� he said.

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Sammie Juanita Sellers Sammie Juanita Sellers, 68, of Knoxville, formerly of Pigeon Forge, died Aug. 5, 2010 at Mercy Residential Hospice.

She is survived by son, Jeffrey Sellers; daughter, Julie Sellers; daughter-in-law, Wanda Sellers; two grandchildren; sisters, Martha, Pat and Becky; and brothers, Bill, Junior and James.

A graveside Service will be at 9 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at Hurst Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery, 909 Mill Creek Road, Pigeon Forge, TN. Arrangements by Cremation Options, Inc. (865) 6WE-CARE (693-2273) n www.cremationoptionsinc.com

William H. Knall William H. Knall, 89, of Sevierville, died Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010 at Heartland of Beavercreek.

He was born October 5, 1920 in Cleveland, Ohio the son of William and Anna Knall.

He is survived by his special friend Jewel Trupiano; his sons, William (Kathy) Knall of Beavercreek and Gerald (Susan) Knall of Westborough, MA.; 4 grandchildren; and his 8 great grandchildren.

No services. Donations may be made in his memory to Hospice of Dayton.

Condolences may be sent to the family at www.

BurchamFuneralHome.com.

Ben Mahlon Russell Ben Mahlon Russell, Sr., 67, of Sevierville died Thursday Aug. 5, 2010.

Survivors: mother of his children, LuAnn Slayback; children, Brian Russell, Brent Russell (Whitney Cowles), Georgette Russell, Amber Russell (Anthony Hickman), Charles Russell, Dakota Russell, Patricia Bruns, Bennett Russell, Jr., Paula Boyd, and Robert Russell; one grandchild; sister, Brenda Russell Parker; brother, John Russell.

The family will receive friends 6-7 p.m. Monday with a memorial service to follow at 7 p.m. in the chapel of Atchley Funeral Home Sevierville. n www.atchleyfuneralhome.com

Maisie Shular Gibson Maisie Shular Gibson, age 84 of Sevierville passed away Saturday August 7, 2010. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Atchley Funeral Home, Seymour.

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north, along the border with China, and also encompasses some styles more traditional to Kung Fu, he said.

When he went in to talk to Ott, Knowles was intrigued. Ott convinced him to take classes on his night off and on Saturday morning. Ott started him out as a white belt, the lowest rank, in Tang Soo Do, but let him move through the ranks based on his ability. Knowles said he was already familiar with many of the forms and techniques because of his background in Tae Kwon Do and that helped enormously.

Ott has awarded him a black belt, and he’s working on his second degree black belt now.

Knowles said there are a lot of people his age who are taking classes again, either with their own children or as a way to get back into shape. He’d

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What recession? U.S. outdoor gear makers ‘buoyant’ SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Despite an economy hammered by recession, sales have doubled every year for a tiny New Hampshire company that makes tents of all things.

But these aren’t just any tents. They are for outdoor enthusiasts — not families forced out by foreclosures — and they are definitely not cheap tents.

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with the run since it started in 1981. He remained involved until the club handed the event over to local groups. It fizzled soon after without the backing of the group of East Tennessee competitive runners, remaining out of sight but not out of mind.

The idea is a simple one: Get a bunch of people who love running together for a sprint through Pigeon Forge. But simplicity doesn’t mean it’s easy to implement.

Morris quickly realized there would have to be

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riders around a 17-mile loop from morning to midafternoon, and an auction in the evening.

The cost of the event was dependent on each participant’s generosity and, while none of the horses or their owners rode in on custom-made carriers, it seems their pockets are deep when it comes to helping out a neighbor in need.

“This is just a bunch of good people getting together to enjoy the horses and camping, and help out,” Leon Williams’ son Leroy Williams said.

“It spreads all through the community and people come to help when somebody gets down like that.”

There’s an annual wagon train event in October, held on the first weekend of that month for about six years. But shortly after that tradition was born, the slightly newer one of benefit fundraisers comprised of a smaller ride got its start.

Since then the August gatherings have also become an annual event, raking in money that has

inflatable air bladders instead for support against the stiffest winds.

The innovative startup with only 13 employees is but one success story in the outdoor gear market that has shown remarkable resilience against economic headwinds.

The more than 4,000 outdoor equipment manufacturers that gathered in Salt Lake City for a trade show last week weren’t just optimistic. Many sounded giddy.

“People are buying tents and sleeping bags and they’re going

camping,” said Kate Ketschek, NEMO’s marketing director.

“When times get tough, people get back to their roots.”

The industry was spooked last year when the economy tanked, but it held its own and is rebounding fast. The recession hardly nicked it — sales were down 2 percent in 2009 but are rising at a rate of 6 percent, said Frank Hugelmeyer, president and CEO of the Outdoor Industry Association.

It helps that buyers of nearly

Mc Swiney, who said his private company doesn’t release sales figures but is “experiencing strong growth.”

“This industry has a buoyancy,” he added. Outdoor recreation is “the kind of thing people fall back on when they don’t have a lot of money to spend on other things.”

The optimism was widely shared on the aisles of the Outdoor Retailer show, held twice a year in Salt Lake City. Organizers just signed up to keep it here for several more years.

some modifications to the regular road race for the event to work.

“This isn’t your typical early Saturday morning run,” is the way he put it.

“This is something different.”

The problem was the proposed course is one of the busiest stretches of road in the county, with hundreds of cars filling it from morning to night on any given summer Saturday. To avoid that problem, coordinators got creative.

“We knew the only way this would work is if we had it at night,” Morris said.

“It’s really made for a great, unique event. There’s just something about running

through Pigeon Forge with all those lights all around you.”

Organizers also opted for the oh-dark-hundred take-off to avoid some of the heat of a summer midday, though that’s a bit relative in this year of blistering heat. The mercury cooled all the way to 80 degrees before the race started, though there at least was the benefit of not having to deal with the blazing sun.

Participant Jessica Doppelt had a dual role with the event. A runner herself, she was pounding the pavement with the crowd and also got her company, which runs www.

PigeonForge.com, involved with a sponsorship.

“As an avid runner, I wanted to participate on a larger scale by bringing the PigeonForge.com brand to the run,” Doppelt said.

“My staff and I wanted to support our local high school but also encourage our community and visitors to come together and embrace a healthier lifestyle by participating in the run.”

Members of the Pigeon Forge High School track team helped put the event on and are expected to play an important part in its future.

Summing up her own experience, Doppelt

offered high praise for the run.

“The race was fantastic,” she said. “The organizers, David Morris and Caroline Lamar, did an amazing job organizing and promoting it, as well as staffing volunteers, getting sponsors, runners and teams. Their hard work at bringing this race back to Pigeon Forge is appreciated. We have missed it. We look forward to doubling the attendance of the race next year.”

As for Morris, he offers a positive evaluation of the event as an organizer.

“It all came together really well. For the first year back, we’re extremely pleased not only for the

done everything from fund medical treatments like Williams’ to save people from losing their homes. When two women suddenly found themselves raising their children alone and fighting to keep a roof over their heads after their husbands were killed in unrelated accidents, the community came together to raise more than $41,000.

Another year a couple who were both dealing with serious illness were the beneficiaries of a $26,000 wagon train event.

As for Williams, his son says the 63-year-old was convinced the pain he felt in his side and back were nothing more than gas until he was convinced he needed to seek medical attention.

“I told him, ‘You worked

all your life for this health insurance and you need to use it,’” Leroy Williams said. “When he got to the hospital they told him that if he had waited one more day there wouldn’t have been any need for him to come up there, that he would have been up the hill in the little family cemetery we’ve got.”

Fortunately, the doctors were able to remove Leon Williams’ infected gall bladder and managed to battle back a gangrenous infection that had spread through his circulatory system. Now it’s just the question of paying for that expensive medical treatment that remains.

Leroy Williams laughs when he thinks of how his dad’s bills will be filled. Among other

activities, the weekend included an “ugliest man competition,” in which magnanimous guys allowed their pictures to be pasted onto jars into which attendees pitched their dollars and change.

In the end, the one who raises the most money is deemed the ugliest man, and the jar is emptied to help the cause of the current benefit.

While the concept of a wagon train may seem like a strange way to raise money to most folks these days, participants and organizers like Stanley Rhea see it as something akin to the

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However, Morris can’t offer any evaluation of the race itself. While he knows people enjoy the run and can tell it’s a fast course by the times the participants post, he’s still waiting for his chance to make a firstperson evaluation.

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Coed softball league forming

Sevierville Parks and Recreation is now registering teams for the upcoming fall coed softball season.

Fee for the league will be $300 per team. Games will be played on Monday and Thursday nights starting Aug. 23.

There will be a captain’s meeting at 6:30 p.m. today at City Park. Registration packets can be picked up at the Community Center.

For more information contact Patrick Oxley at 755-9045 or 453-5441, also by e-mail to poxley@seviervilletn.org.

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The city of Sevierville Public Building Authority will meet at 1 p.m. today at the Civic Center with only two items on the agenda.

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Student registration for Pi Beta Phi Elementary School will be at 5 p.m. Thursday for students in grades 1-8. First day of school will be Aug. 16 for the same grades.

Parents of kindergarten students will meet at the school at 5 p.m. Aug. 16 to process paperwork for enrollment. Specific attendance schedules for kindergarten students will be announced then.

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Blood drive today at Food City

A Medic blood drive will be held today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Food City on Dolly Parton Parkway. All donors receive a coupon for a Chick-fil-A, a Tennessee Smokies T-shirt and a chance to win a pair of Smokies home-game tickets.

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Hot Meals for Hungry Hearts will serve meals today from 5:30-6:30 p.m. free of charge at Henderson Chapel Baptist Church at 407 Henderson Road. It is sponsored Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries.

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Forge facilities closed for repairs

Pigeon Forge Community Center will be closed Tuesday through next Sunday and the bowling center today through Sunday for annual repairs and maintenance.

The community center will reopen at 6 a.m. Monday, Aug, 16.

The bowling center will reopen at 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 16. The outdoor pool will remain open during the week of Aug. 10-15. andwill be closed for the season beginning Aug. 16.

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The Sevierville Parks and Recreation Department announces the closing of the Sevierville Community Center next Friday and Saturday for maintenance.

The Community Center will reopen for regularly scheduled activities at 6 a.m.

Monday, Aug.16.

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Knoxville medic Afghan victim KNOXVILLE (AP) — The family of Tennessee woman says she is one of 10 members of a medical team gunned down in Afghanistan.

The family of 32-yearold Cheryl Beckett said in a statement Sunday that she was part of the team providing eye care and medical aid in northern Afghanistan. Beckett is the daughter of a Knoxville pastor. She had been in Afghanistan for six years and specialized in nutritional gardening and mother-child health.

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“I know this is very hard to understand to people outside Finland who are not familiar with the sauna habit. It is not so unusual to have 110 degrees in a sauna. A lot of competitors before have sat in higher temperatures than that.”

— Ossi Arvela, a spokesman for the World Sauna Championships, where a Russian man died of severe burns in the final stage of an event that required contestants to sit in a 230-degree room as water was tossed onto a searing stove

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brought some of the first toothbrushes and eyeglasses villagers had ever seen and spent no time talking about religion as they provided medical care, friends and aid organizations said Sunday.

Dr. Thomas Grams, 51, quit his dental practice in Durango, Colo., four years ago to work full-time giving impoverished children free dental care in Nepal and Afghanistan, said Katy Shaw of Global Dental Relief, a Denver-based group that sends teams of dentists around the globe.

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The buddy-cop parody starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg made $35.6 million in its opening weekend, according to Sunday estimates from Sony Pictures.

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Sevier stories are worthy of Charles Kuralt When I was part of the team at the CBS Television Network in New York, there was a journalist who had a regular segment on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. His name was Charles Kuralt and the feature was called “On the Road.” Over 25 years he wore out six motor homes traveling the nation’s back roads in search of America’s people and what they were doing. He said, “Interstate highways allow you to drive coast to coast, without seeing anything.”

There were a few back road stories that he missed, right here in our backyard.

He never reported on Uncle Lem Ownby, the last lifetime leaseholder to reside in the Smoky Mountains. He was famous for robbing the honey from his bee hives, which he sold to tourists from all over the world. He told me the story of The Little River Railroad Company that was put in the Elkmont community to transport timber to the mill in Townsend.

Uncle Lem said “If the Good Lord wanted trains, he would have put in tracks, not trees. The train derailed and killed two of my friends.”

Charles Kurallt never had the privilege of eating any of Gladys Breeden’s cooking at Gladys’ Place on Wilhite Road.

She made the best fried pies this side of heaven. During Tennessee Homecoming in 1986, Gladys and Alex Haley were featured in print and television advertising.

This all came to me the other day when I met a good friend at Carol’s Market, on the corner of Old Newport Highway and Jones Cove Road. Carol Knight has run the market and restaurant for 19 years. Her first employee, Nancy, is still with her. Penny is the baby of the family, having been there just four years. When you have breakfast at Carol’s. You will always be greeted as if you too are one of their family. The food is just like at Mom’s house and you will meet all sorts of people, from Jim Bookstaff, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and local businessman, bank director and the greatest mentor and friend that anyone could ever hope to have, to Curtis Wells, pastor of Fellowship Baptist Church and a farmer on Jones Cove.

I met another colorful character there the other day, Gene Simpson. We met at a Bible study that has been going on in our area for more than 17 years now. About half the stories that Gene tells began with a kernel of truth and have been embellished some over the years. Gene was a tour boat captain on the Hudson River in Hyde Park, N.Y. He also served as an elected judge for 16 years, was a bank manager, repossessed cars as an employee of GMAC, worked locally with Jim Bookstaff and owned Duffs Restaurant in Pigeon Forge.

To give you some idea as to what an interesting character Gene is, here is an excerpt from an article in the Poughkeepsie Journal from March 1, 1973. “Eugene Simpson is the branch manager of the Hyde Park Marine Midland Bank. When a teller questioned a check that a local 18-year-old was trying to cash, Simpson agreed that there was something wrong. What the youth did not know, but will long remember, is that Simpson is also a Hyde Park town justice.

“It was just before closing time when the teller brought me the check made out for $70,” said Simpson. “I asked the boy over, told him to have a seat and stay calm until the sheriff’s deputies came. I explained that I was placing him under arrest because I thought the check was forged and I explained who I was. He stayed calm but appeared rather shocked.’

Simpson arraigned the youth as deputies were taking him out the door. The charge is possession of a forged instrument.”

Another “On the Road Story.”

The weather has been very hot lately, unfortunately some folks temperaments have matched the thermometer. Let’s look for ways to perform some random acts of kindness. The greatest thing you can do in life is to tell a young boy or girl that they’re “the very best” at something.

That gives them the wonderful feeling that they can do anything, which they can!

— Dave Gorden of Sevierville is a member of the Speakers Hall of Fame, past president of the National Speakers Association and one of the Authors of “Chicken Soup For the Adopted Soul.”

E-mail Dave@davegorden.com.

Editorial

The boys of fall At long last, another football season is right around the corner It has been said that the three most important sports in the Southeast are football season, spring football practice and college football recruiting. If that is true — with no disrespect meant to those who follow basketball, baseball, racing and golf — fans in these parts should be starting to salivate. The high school football season begins at the end of next week and Tennessee opens Sept. 4.

All the months in the weight room, the off-season conditioning programs, the grueling summer two-a-day practices are about to give way to the only things that really matter — the W’s and L’s that will be decided on the field. There are state championships to be won on the high school level, conference and national championships on the collegiate level and a Super Bowl that is the ultimate prize in the NFL. Locally, there is plenty of excitement. At Gatlinburg Pittman, Benny Hammonds will get his 300th career coaching victory early in the season and the Highlanders should again contend for the postseason.

Sevier County is coming off its only undefeated regular season in history, but

would like to advance further in the playoffs. Seymour is still finding its way in its second year as the smallest school in District 2-AAA. Optimism is high at Pigeon Forge after a good showing against former state-champion Sweetwater in a preseason scrimmage.

At the University of Tennessee, expectations for this season certainly aren’t as lofty as they were during the years of Gen. Bob Neyland, Bill Battle, Johnny Majors and Phil Fulmer, but interest in the program is as strong as ever. Rare has been the offseason that has generated the amount of conversation since the Vols evaporated 37-14 to Virginia Tech in the Peach Bowl.

Lane Kiffin bolted for Southern Cal after one mediocre season, leaving a legacy of unforgettable controversial and ill-timed comments that infuriated other coaches and kept him in hot water with the Southeastern Conference league office.

Most Tennessee fans were pleased to bid him good riddance.

Largely untested Derek Dooley, son of legendary Georgia coach Vince Dooley and

the antithesis of Kiffin, was hired after the Vols were rejected by bigger names. But Dooley, while keeping a low profile, has proven largely popular with the fans, especially in light of how he handled the situation after several players were implicated in the beating of an off-duty policeman at a club near the campus.

Now, though, Dooley must produce on the field. Gone is All-America defensive back Eric Berry, quarterback Jonathan Crompton and running back Montario Hardesty. The offensive line has been depleted and running back Bryce Brown, the crown jewel of Kiffin’s highly acclaimed — and only — recruiting class has left.

There are seven home games and the Vols could be favored in all except Florida and Alabama. Road games include LSU, Georgia and South Carolina. It would seem a conference championship is out of the question, but another minor bowl game is possible.

It’s going to be an interesting season — it’s good to welcome back the boys of fall.

Political view

Public forum Texas resident thanks local Baptist minister

Editor: I live in Wichita Falls, Texas near Sheppard Air Force Base. Last night, a gentleman from your community, a Baptist minister whose name I did not

get, returned a wallet to my home that he had found while eating at a local restaurant. It had fallen out of my pocket at the restaurant without my knowledge.

When he found it, he looked for a name and address so he could return it to me personally, which he did with a great generosity of spirit. All I know of this

man is that he is a Baptist minister from Tennessee — probably the Dandridge area — and he’s here with the Air Force on temporary duty. My great thanks to this man for his honesty and helpfulness.

Tennessee is well-represented by him.

Kim Hart Wichita Falls, Texas

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Mickelson fumbles his shot at No. 1 AKRON, Ohio (AP) — It could have been a coronation. Instead, it was a disappointment.

The world No. 1 ranking was there for the taking.

All Phil Mickelson had to do was finish in the top four at the Bridgestone Invitational.

But as has been the case for the past few months when a win or a strong finish would have gotten him past a faltering Tiger Woods and into the top spot, Mickelson couldn’t do it.

“It was a rough day,” Mickelson said after an ugly 78 in Sunday’s final round. “I felt pretty good today. I felt good on the range, I hit some good shots. I felt like I was sharp and ready to go attack the golf course and make some birdies. And it just didn’t happen.”

Mickelson was tied for 10th heading into Sunday.

But seven bogeys and a double-bogey (and one lonely birdie) left him at 3-over 283 and tied for 46th instead.

“I don’t know what to say,” Mickelson said Meanwhile, Woods had the most dreadful tournament of his professional career. His final-round 77 left him at 18-over par — his worst showing ever over 72 holes in relation to par. He beat out only one player in the 80-player field, posting his worst finish ever in a four-round tournament by ending up in a tie for 78th.

Ireland’s Padraig Harrington is one of a number of players lurking behind the secondranked Mickelson and third-ranked (but injured) Lee Westwood. He has his own opinion of the pecking order.

“Lee Westwood is the most consistent player in the world. Phil is playing the best golf in the world when he plays well. And Tiger is the best player in the world,” Harrington said. “That kind of sums it up.”

Woods’ lost weekend opened the door for Mickelson to take over the No. 1 spot in the world. But he fumbled the chance.

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Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young, right, hands off to running back Chris Johnson during training camp last week.

Newer-look Titans

Fisher confident younger players emerging

By TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Titans look, and sound, dramatically different this training camp.

Linebacker Keith Bulluck is keeping practices lively with the New York Giants, and end Kyle Vanden Bosch is sprinting fullspeed at quarterbacks in Detroit.

Center Kevin Mawae, the veteran who kept the offensive line loose, is keeping busy waiting for his telephone to ring.

The loss of that trio of vocal veterans has left a leadership void, and coach Jeff Fisher has heard a lot of questions about who his new leaders are. Remember, this franchise opened 0-6 last season yet finished 8-8 — the first NFL team ever to finish at .500 after such a winless start.

“I don’t have any reservations whatsoever about the lack of or concerns about it,” Fisher said.

“We’ve got a good locker room.

We have young players emerging at each of the positions. This team has had a great foundation laid here over the years and the decades.”

Who fills those gaps?

Vince Young, the third pick in the 2006 draft and 26-13 as a starter, is speaking up even more. He also

has been around the team’s headquarters more this offseason than any other. So is fullback Ahmard Hall, a former Marine.

There’s linebacker Stephen Tulloch, the man Fisher calls the glue in making the defensive calls. There’s also fiery cornerback Cortland Finnegan and usually quiet safety Chris Hope, going into his ninth season.

Hall insists the process started back during the offseason.

“You just can’t come out of nowhere and start trying to lead.

You have to start the first day we come back to organized activities during the offseason program.

Then when the guys are here early every day, you have to show the guys you’re going to lead by example,” Hall said.

Justin Gage and Nate Washington do that daily, leading receivers to work catching balls off a passing machine. Finnegan calls himself a doer, not a talker, even though he tends to talk at opponents during games.

“I feel like I’m that piece of the engine as a spark plug. You really can’t get the car cranked up unless you’ve got the spark plug,” Finnegan said.

That’s what tackle Tony Brown is trying to do on the defensive line. He’s the senior lineman with

this team, signing as a free agent in October 2006 and getting two more contracts to stick around. He has been on the physically unable to perform list as he recovers from right knee surgery this offseason. He said nobody can replace Vanden Bosch, who wasn’t afraid to speak up.

“I just have to show these younger guys how to do things by the way that I do things. I’m not a big rah-rah guy. I just go out to do what I can do, and that way it’ll rub off on those guys,” Brown said.

Brown predicts Hope, who won a Super Bowl ring with Pittsburgh before signing with Tennessee in 2006, will be one of the players who speaks up before kickoff.

“It’ll be a shock to us to hear from a guy who doesn’t really normally speak too much,” Brown said. “That definitely gets guys going.”

Left tackle Michael Roos, who has started 80 straight games since being drafted in 2005, tried to take up for Mawae on the second day of training camp, wearing the center’s No. 68 jersey out to practice.

He fooled a few fans who hoped the Titans had decided to bring Mawae back to an offense that ranked second in the NFL in rushing last season and yet allowed only 15 sacks.

ATLANTA (AP) — David Ross made the most of a rare start Sunday.

Ross hit a two-run homer and Derek Lowe pitched into the sixth inning before leaving with an injury, leading the Atlanta Braves to a 6-3 victory over the San Francisco Giants.

The Braves have All-Star catcher Brian McCann, so Ross doesn’t play much.

But he is hitting .284 with 20 RBIs in 37 games, 24 starts, this season. He also walked and scored Atlanta’s final run on Melky Cabrera’s single in the eighth.

“I finally ran into one,” Ross said of his first homer of the season, a drive to left during Atlanta’s three-run second. “Guys were giving me a (hard time) so I got that off my chest, finally. I thought I was getting too old, that I didn’t have any pop anymore.”

Lowe (11-9) was bothered by cramping in his hamstring. The right-hander allowed two runs and five hits in 5 1-3 innings.

Lowe said he also had some cramps in his right arm in the fourth inning but he would not miss his next start.

“The whole right leg was cramping,” he said.

Four relievers combined to finish up, with Takashi Saito tossing a scoreless ninth for his first save of the season.

Omar Infante hit a solo homer for Atlanta, which won three of four in the series and has won four of five overall. The NL East-leading Braves also improved their major league-best home record to 39-15 and maintained a two-game lead over Philadelphia, which beat the New York Mets 6-5.

Jonathan Sanchez (8-7) pitched four innings for the Giants, yielding four runs and five hits. The left-hander was coming off a strong performance against Colorado, when he threw six effective innings in a 10-0 victory.

The full-count pitch to Ross “was a sinker away,” Sanchez said. “He killed it. That’s baseball. You can’t expect to win all the games.”

Mistake-free Montoya wins at Watkins Glen WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) — Juan Pablo Montoya finally had a race without a mistake, and he proved invincible.

The hard-driving Colombian erased 113 races of futility Sunday, winning a duel with Marcos Ambrose and the Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen International.

“It’s about time,” Montoya said after celebrating with his crew in Victory Lane. “We’ve lost a lot of them, gave away a lot of them. It gets frustrating, everybody fighting. There’s so many things I have to learn. I still make a lot of mistakes. It’s experience. We’ve just got to learn from it.”

Frustration mounted when crew chief Brian Pattie’s pit strategy backfired at the previous two races. A late four-tire call likely cost Montoya a win at the Brickyard 400, and he finished 16th a week ago at Pocono after starting second, another questionable pit call the culprit that led to harsh words over the radio.

A prerace talk at Watkins Glen with team co-owner Chip Ganassi helped clear the air.

Montoya went out, withstood repeated stalking and challenges from Ambrose and won going away.

Montoya led 74 of 90 laps and beat Kurt Busch to the line by nearly 5 seconds for

his second career victory, the other coming on NASCAR’s other road course at Sonoma in 2007, 113 races ago. Montoya gave Earnhardt Ganassi racing just its third victory of the season.

Ambrose was third, his third straight topthree finish at Watkins Glen, followed by AJ Allmendinger and pole-sitter Carl Edwards.

Jamie McMurray, Tony Stewart, Kyle Busch, Jeff Burton and Jeff Gordon rounded out the top 10.

It was the first career victory for Pattie, who fought back tears after watching the No. 42 take the checkered flag.

“It’s huge,” Pattie said. “I still want to win on an oval. He wants to prove his point. The Brickyard was my fault. Hope this makes up for it. Trophies mean a lot. It’s pretty cool.”

Montoya made the Chase for the Sprint Cup last year, made a strong run early in the 10-race postseason, and finished eighth in points. His chances of making the Chase this year vanished early. He’s failed to finish seven of the first 21 races and is well out of contention.

“Last year, we were so hung up on making the Chase that it was all about numbers, it wasn’t about being fast or slow,” said Montoya.

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Champion Saints say smooth camp is not an accident

By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer METAIRIE, La. — The defending champion New Orleans Saints have opened training camp with the look of a team that has it all figured out.

All rookie contracts were signed by the first day of practice. No one is holding out for more money. Everybody reported without any significant, season-threatening injuries. No healthy players have been barred from practice because they couldn’t pass a conditioning test.

There have been no fisticuffs. The main off-the-field drama — Reggie Bush’s role in an NCAA report that produced sanctions for USC — largely played out before camp opened, won’t affect Bush’s pro career and does not appear to have hurt his local popularity. There hasn’t been much drama on the field, either.

Are the Saints trying to be boring?

“We are,” quarterback Drew Brees said. “We’re just trying to take care of business, let everybody speculate and talk, and come out ready to play Week 1.”

The headline-grabbing plot twists of the 2010 NFL preseason seem to be developing anywhere but the Big Easy. There’s been the contract holdout by New York Jets star cornerback Darrelle Revis. Brett Favre has kept the Minnesota Vikings guessing about their quarterback situation. The Washington Redskins’ Albert Haynesworth struggled more than a week to finally pass his conditioning test.

The Saints have had no such distractions.

“Most championship teams don’t have those issues, especially the ones that are really serious about trying to collect multiple Lombardis,” fullback Heath Evans said, referring to the Lombardi Trophy given to Super Bowl champions.

“That’s kind of what we set our focus on, and I think the guys have followed (coach Sean Payton’s) lead and Drew’s lead and said, ’Hey, listen, let’s cut the nonsense out.”’

At Saints headquarters in suburban New Orleans, one of the primary sources of suspense concerns who will hold for kicker Garrett Hartley on field goals.

Pardon the masses of adoring fans packing open practices if they’re not holding their breath to see how that turns out.

“This is one of those teams where you can probably say you’ve got 50 guys you know are going to make this team and maybe there’s three spots where you’re going to have some battles,” Evans said.

The Saints have all starters back from last season’s offense. Only two starters

from the defense — linebacker Scott Fujita and defensive end Charles Grant — are elsewhere, and deciding how to fill those spots is perhaps the most compelling story line of camp. Punter Thomas Morstead is entrenched, as is Hartley at kicker.

During training camp a year ago, Hartley faced a looming suspension stemming from his positive drug test for Adderall, an amphetamine banned by the NFL. The Saints were forced to sign kicker John Carney to fill in.

Now Hartley is a playoff star with no competition.

As for Morstead, the only change for him is that he has become one of the candidates to take over for former Saints backup quarterback Mark Brunell as the holder on field goals.

Meanwhile, a good bit of the Saints’ roster stability stems from choices made by several restricted free agents who were unhappy with their one-year tender offers but after minimal deliberation went ahead and signed them and kept practicing. Running back Pierre Thomas, receiver Lance Moore and strong safety Roman Harper all want more lucrative, multiyear deals, but they’re all back and keeping quiet about contract talks.

“We’re a special team and a lot of people are seeing a lot of greatness in us,” Thomas said. “Just with the character of these guys, they have the mindset and the determination to be champions, and when you have that as a group, have that as a team, you’re more focused. You don’t have guys who want to do the holdout. You got guys who want to get better. You got guys who want to step up to a challenge and just try to defend our title.”

Of course, preseason games have yet to begin, and Payton wasn’t taking the Saints’ general good health for granted.

“I think, knock on wood, that we have been healthier than in camps past,” the coach said. “We still have three weeks. Overall, I have been pleased with that. Guys have been getting the work.”

NOTES: The Saints had Sunday off. They’re scheduled to travel to Washington, D.C., on Monday to meet President Barack Obama at the White House and to visit wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Medical Center.

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Denver Broncos strength and conditioning coach Rich Tuten touches the new haircut on Tim Tebow on Saturday.

Shear genius as Broncos’ vets shave rookies’ locks DENVER (AP) — Tim Tebow was all the buzz Saturday night at the Denver Broncos’ practice.

The rookie quarterback stood out not only for his play at practice but for his shaved locks, the top of his head completely sheared to leave a ring of hair that made him look like a monk.

The pranks the veterans will play.

Tebow and the other rookies had their heads decorated with wacky haircuts before the workout and they had to show them off during warm-ups when they couldn’t hide underneath their helmets.

“I think all the rookies had a good time with it,” Tebow said. “It was something to give everybody a laugh, something also to build chemistry.”

Tebow wasn’t the only one to get a bad haircut.

Receiver Eric Decker was outfitted with lines carved into his ’do and left guard Zane Beadles sported a reverse Mohawk.

Offensive lineman Eric Olsen was able to save his long, flowing dirty blond locks in the back, but he’s now bald on top, and tight end Nathan Overbay had half a haircut, his left side sheared and his right side left alone.

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When his image was shown on the big screen at Invesco Field before practice, the crowd broke into laughter.

He said linebacker Wesley Woodyard was the barber responsible for his cut, taking out some of his college frustrations with the razor (Woodyard went to SEC rival Kentucky).

“He was getting a few blows back from the college days,” Tebow said, laughing.

Tebow didn’t stand out just for his bad haircut. The first-round pick out of Florida looked good in front of the home crowd, too, tossing about a 25-yard touchdown pass to Demaryius Thomas into

the corner of the end zone.

Tebow then sprinted down the field to celebrate with his fellow rookie.

“He went up there and got it,” Tebow said. “Great job by D.T.” Later in the practice, Tebow made a play with his feet, scoring a short TD on a QB keeper.

“To go out there and play in the stadium for the first time was really exciting,” Tebow said. “To be able to have a drive and try to run the offense was fun.”

After practice, fans excitedly took pictures of Tebow’s bad haircut, which quickly circulated around the Internet.

Finally, a team official handed him a baseball cap to hide his bad hair day.

RENTON, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks say they appreciate official Bill Leavy admitting he made two bad calls in their Super Bowl loss — and now they’re ready to move on.

Nine players remain from the team’s lone Super Bowl appearance in 2006, including quarterback Matt Hasselbeck.

He was whistled for a low block on what appeared to be a legal tackle on an interception return in the fourth quarter of the loss to Pittsburgh.

The Steelers used the better field position from the penalty on Hasselbeck to score the clinching touchdown in Pittsburgh’s 21-10 victory.

“It’s a game. It’s not a perfect science,” Hasselbeck said Saturday, after Leavy again worked at the Seahawks’ training camp practice. “There’s a lot of human involvement there. I’ve played some games that I remember because I feel I did a good job and I remember some other games where I have regrets. That goes for any sport, any player.

I’m sure coaching is no different. And I’m sure officiating is the same way.”

Leavy and his crew have been at Seahawks camp the past several days as part of the NFL’s summer tour of officials informing teams of new rules and interpretations.

Leavy told Seattle-area media Friday night that he “kicked two calls in the fourth quarter and I impacted the game.” He said he will “go to my grave wishing I’d been better.”

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Spectators react at the final at the World Sauna Championships in Heinola, Finland, on Saturday.

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Russian man dies in searing heat at sauna contest

By JARI TANNER Associated Press Writer HELSINKI — A Russian man trying to win the Sauna World Championships died after collapsing with severe burns in the final stage of an event that required contestants to sit in a 230-degree room as water was tossed onto a searing stove, officials and witnesses said.

V l a d i m i r Ladyzhenskiy, an amateur wrestler who was in his 60s, was pronounced dead late Saturday after he collapsed alongside reigning champion Timo Kaukonen of Finland roughly six minutes into the final round.

Nearly 1,000 spectators had gathered in the southern Finnish town of Heinola to watch 130 competitors from 15 countries, waving flags and cheering on the contestants before medical workers pulled the shaking and bleeding men out of the sauna.

Video footage shows workers pouring cold water over the two men and administering first aid as organizers tried to cover up the scene and calm spectators.

The men were bleeding from what appeared to be severe burns, said Hakon Eikesdal, a photographer with the Norwegian daily Dagbladet.

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the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. The fund’s spokesman Konstantin Kruglyansky told the LifeNews daily that his family has demanded an investigation into his death.

Kaukonen, about 40, was hospitalized in stable condition Sunday, contest spokesman Ossi Arvela said.

The annual contest had been held since 1999. It will never be held again, Arvela said.

Half a liter (a pint) of water is added to the stove every 30 seconds and the last person to remain in the sauna is the winner.

There was no prize other than “some small things” Arvela said.

He declined to provide details.

Eikesdal said Kaukonen — the defending world

champion — had refused to leave the sauna despite getting sick and that organizers had to force the men out.

Sauna bathing is a popular pastime in the Nordic countries and Russia, but especially in Finland, which has an estimated 1.6 million saunas for a population of 5 million people.

Temperatures are normally kept around 158 to 176 degrees.

“I know this is very hard to understand to people outside Finland who are not familiar with the sauna habit,” Arvela said. “It is not so unusual to have 110 degrees in a sauna. A lot of competitors before have sat in higher temperatures than that.”

According to a research report from 2008, the annual death

rate in Finnish saunas was less than 2 per 100,000 inhabitants, representing around 100 Finns a year. It said the majority of deaths were due to natural causes, such as heart problems and that half of the deaths occurred under the influence of alcohol. Around 25 percent of the deaths were the direct result of the heat exposure.

Arvala said all rules in Saturday’s competition were followed and the temperatures and times were similar to those in previous years.

He said police are investigating the death.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean authorities seized a South Korean fishing boat and its crew Sunday in waters off the divided peninsula’s eastern coast, the South’s coast guard said amid heightened tensions over the sinking of a southern navy ship.

Four South Korean and three Chinese fishermen were questioned for an alleged violation of the North’s exclusive economic zone, South Korea’s coast guard said in a statement. It said the fishing boat was being taken toward the North Korea’s eastern port of Songjin.

A South Korean fisherman told South Korea via a satellite phone that his boat was being towed by a North Korean patrol, according to the coast guard.

The coast guard said it was not clear where exactly the 41-ton fishing boat was operating when it was seized. The boat departed South Korea’s southeastern port of Pohang on Aug. 1 and was scheduled to return home on September 10.

South Korea called on the North to quickly return the fishing boat and its crew. However, the prospect of their quick return is being complicated because of tension over the March sinking of a South Korean warship off the western coast blamed on North Korea.

South Korea also conducted naval drills off the western coast, including areas near the two countries’ disputed sea border. The exercises, which end Monday, were aimed at strengthening South Korea’s ability to counter any North Korean provocations.

North Korea — which has denied involvement in the sinking — warned last week it would “counter the reckless naval firing projected by the group of traitors with strong physical retaliation” and advised civilian ships to stay away from the maritime border.

Suicide car bomber kills eight west of Baghdad BAGHDAD (AP) — A suicide car bomber struck a police patrol west of Baghdad Sunday and killed eight people, most of them civilians standing in line outside a post office to collect the monthly stipend for the country’s poorest, police officials said.

The blast comes just a day after explosions tore through a market in the south killing 43 people. Violence across Iraq has spiked in the past month as the U.S. moves ahead with a major drawdown of its troops set to be completed by the end of the month.

The increase in violence and the U.S. pullout have raised concerns about whether Iraqi security forces are up to the job of keeping militants from destabilizing the country further at a time of political uncertainty over who will form the next government.

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Monday, August 9, 2010 ◆ The Mountain Press

Forced to retire, some opt for Social Security early

By MATT SEDENSKY Associated Press Writer MIAMI — Paul Skidmore’s office is shuttered, his job gone, his 18-month job search fruitless and his unemployment benefits exhausted. So at 63, he plans to file this week for Social Security benefits, three years earlier than planned.

“All I want to do is work,” said Skidmore, of Finksburg, Md., who was an insurance claims adjuster for 37 years before his company downsized and closed his office last year. “And nobody will hire me.”

It is one of the most striking fallouts from the bad economy: Social Security is facing its first-ever shortfall this year as a wave of people like Skidmore opt to collect payments before their full retirement age. Adding to the strain on the trust are reduced tax collections sapped by the country’s historic unemployment — still at 9.5 percent.

More people filed for Social Security in 2009 — 2.74 million — than any year in history, and there was a marked increase in the number receiving reduced benefits because they filed ahead of their full retirement age.

The increase came as the full Social Security retirement age rose last year from 65 to 66.

Nearly 72 percent of men who filed opted for early benefits in 2009, up from 58 percent the previous year.

More women also filed — 74.7 percent in 2009 com-

pared with 64.2 percent the previous year.

Jason Fichtner, an associatecommissionerattheSocial Security Administration, said the weak economy has led more people who lost their jobs to retire early. However, it also has forced some people hard-hit by the recession and in need of a bigger paycheck to push back retirement and stay in the work force longer.

“But we’re seeing more people taking early benefits than staying in the workforce longer,” Fichtner said.

Like Skidmore, 63-yearold Jan Gissel of Tustin, Calif., also was forced into retirement early. She turned to unemployment benefits when her technical support business failed and filed for Social Security last September. Together, the checks are keeping her afloat.

“I knew I had to have an income from somewhere, and my business wasn’t giving it to me,” she said. “I just went online and, boom, three weeks later I had the check.”

Gissel wants to continue working but still hasn’t found a job. Although she didn’t expect to be cashing Social Security checks so soon, she’s grateful for the support it has provided.

“I needed it way earlier than I thought,” she said.

In the annual report of the Social Security program released Thursday, the trustees said that pension and disability payments will exceed revenues for this year and 2011, reflecting the deep

recession.

The report forecast that the program would return to the black in 2012 through 2014, but that benefit payments will again exceed tax collections in 2015. For every year after 2015, the report projects that Social Security will be paying out more than it receives in tax collections as 78 million baby boomers begin retiring.

The trustees did not focus on the growth of early retirees in their report, as they don’t expect the early retirees to significantly drain funds over the long-term.

Early opt-ins receive smaller monthly checks so that they aren’t projected to receive any more money over a lifetime than they would if they had waited to collect Social Security until their full retirement age.

People entitled to full benefits at 66 would receive 75 percent of their check if they began collecting four years early. Conversely, if they waited until they turned 70, collecting four years late, they would earn 32 percent more.

They would receive the decreased — or increased — percentages for the rest of their life.

“From the trustees’ perspective it’s a wash, because they calculate you’ll get the same total benefit,” said Maria Freese, director of gov-

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Paul Skidmore, with his wife Kathy in the background, stands at his home in Finksburg, Md. After searching for a job for 18 months, Skidmore plans to file this week for Social Security benefits, three years earlier than planned. ernment relations and policy at the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare.

Freese added, though, that beneficiaries generally only opt in early because they have to.

“Nora Lopez, 62, of Hialeah, Fla., retired from her job as an elementary school teacher last year and began collecting Social Security. She did so, in part, because of health problems.

When her school district offered teachers the option of keeping their health insurance coverage until they qualified for Medicare at 65, she decided she could get by on her pension and Social Security.

“I wanted to work as long as I could,” she said. “But it was hard for me to do that.”

For some, it’s simply a

matter of doing the math that prompts them to cash in early. Jack Dixon, 63, of Naples, Fla., stopped working full-time in April as a trolley driver and tour guide, cutting back to one day a week. He decided to do it after his wife

figured out they’d be able to get by even with the reduced Social Security benefit.

“Why should I go out there to the hustle and bustle and stress and all the stuff that’s related to work if I don’t have to?” he asked.

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cal role on the court, never predictably conservative or liberal, often providing the decisive vote in closely divided cases.

The three women justices “may be in dissent more often” because they make up three-fourths of the liberal side of a more conservative court, Leiter said.

Their Democratic ties, though, could make it more likely that the next Republican president will look to nominate a woman, said Notre Dame law professor and former Supreme Court law clerk Richard Garnett.

Ginsburg said Garnett could be right. “I don’t think that when there’s the next vacancy the president will feel any compulsion to appoint another woman, but also won’t resist appointing another woman,” she said.

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opinions “profoundly misguided.” Justice Antonin Scalia, her good friend on the court, is known for his acerbic writings, which Ginsburg conceded might be more attention-grabbing

than others’.

Ginsburg is fond of her service with O’Connor, who retired in 2006. In disagreeing on some major issues, they showed that women “come in all sizes and shapes just like men do.”

Ginsburg was appointed

by Democrat Bill Clinton, while O’Connor became the first woman on the court thanks to Republican Ronald Reagan.

Kagan and Sotomayor were both nominated by President Barack Obama, a Democrat.

“I’d feel better if there was a conservative woman on the court as well, just so there wasn’t an opportunity to think they’re liberal just because they’re women,” said Catholic University law professor Amanda Leiter, a one-time clerk for Stevens.

O’Connor played a criti-

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“The initial reaction of the men was, ’What’s so terrible? Boys disrobe,”’ she said. “But I think the court really appreciated that there is a difference between the reaction of a 13-year-old girl and 13-year-old boy to that kind of exposure.”

Ginsburg didn’t explicitly say so, but she appeared to be taking credit for changing some minds. The justices voted 8-1 that the search violated the student’s constitutional rights.

She also suggested that women were more likely to add a measure of civility to the court’s work. Opinions by the court’s women “have no nasty comments whether they’re writing for the court or in dissent.”

Not so for some of the men. She said Stevens was fond of calling others’

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WASHINGTON — At least once a term for 13 years, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recalled, some lawyer arguing before the Supreme C o u r t would mistake her for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, or vice versa.

Kagan No matter that Brooklynborn Ginsburg and O’Connor, raised on a ranch in Arizona, look and sound nothing alike.

The confusion arose because, even at the dawn of the 21st century, women on the court were “one- or two-at-a-time curiosities,” Ginsburg said.

So she considered it progress that no one made that error after Sonia Sotomayor became a Supreme Court justice last year.

Now with Elena Kagan set to join them on the bench for the start of the high court term in October, Ginsburg perceives an even bigger change.

“We are one-third of this court,” Ginsburg said during an interview with The Associated Press in her Supreme Court office.

No longer a momentous event, the appointment of a woman to the high court has become, Ginsburg said, “expectable.”

“I don’t think anybody’s going to confuse Justice Kagan, Justice Ginsburg or Justice Sotomayor,” she said.

But having three women on the court may not change the outcome of any cases. The justices, after all, regularly divide 5-4 along ideological lines in highprofile cases. Sotomayor’s votes in her first year were very similar to Justice David Souter’s, the man

she replaced. Kagan is expected to vote much like Justice John Paul Stevens, who retired in June.

“Having this seat occupied by a woman does not in and of itself change the way this justice votes,” said Vanderbilt University law professor Tracey George.

Academic studies have so far found just one area, sex discrimination lawsuits, in which the presence of a woman on a panel of federal appeals court judges appears to make a difference. A three-judge panel that includes a woman “is significantly more likely to rule in favor of” a person claiming sex discrimination, Christina Boyd, Lee Epstein and Andrew Martin concluded in a 2008 paper.

Adding another woman might not change the outcome of cases, but it could have an effect on how the court goes about its business, George said. She cited social science research that suggests the presence of a woman in a decision-making group influences the behavior of others in the group.

Ginsburg put a similar thought plainly. “We do bring to the table the experience of growing up as girls and women,” she said.

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On August 18, 2010 at 10:00 AM, 324 Wears Valley Rd, Pigeon Forge, Tn. Pigeon Forge Storage will sell to the highest and last bidder the contents of the following units to satisfy delinquent rents: Armstrong, D Call, T Collett, A Collins, A Gallagher, B Grant, J Haithcock, T Heater, H Myers, D Oneill, C Osborne, R Phillips, D Rios, J Roberts, S Sosa, R Steele, B Taylor, W Turner, A

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Pursuant to Default Provision Chapter 717 Public Act of Tennessee the contents of leased space unit(s) #29 ,44, 48A, 48B, 53, 57, 61, 82, 89 will be disposed of to satisfy the owner's lien. Dynamite Mini Storage.

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To complain of discrimination, call HUD Toll-free at 1-800-669-9777, The Toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

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Separate sealed bids for delivery, unloading, and furnishing of KITCHEN AND LOUNGE EQUIPMENT will be received by the Eagle’s Landing Golf Club UNTIL 1:30 P.M. (EST) AND PUBLICLY OPENED @ 2:00 P.M. (EST) WEDNEDAY, AUGUST 18, 2010. Bid opening will be conducted at Eagles Landing Golf Club, 1556 Old Knoxville Hwy., Sevierville, Tennessee 37876. Bids received after the specified time, postmarks notwithstanding, shall be rejected.

Bids shall be submitted on forms furnished by the Public Building Authority. Specifications and bid forms may be obtained at Sevierville City Hall, 120 Gary Wade Boulevard, Sevierville, TN 37862 or on website at www.seviervilletn.org. Envelopes shall be labeled: “BID ENCLOSED: KITCHEN AND LOUNGE EQUIPMENT” and mailed to the following address: Jenny Britt Public Building Authority of The City of Sevierville P.O. Box 5500 Sevierville, TN 37864-5500

Physical address: City of Sevierville 120 Gary Wade Blvd.

Sevierville, TN 37862

The City of Sevierville and the Public Building Authority of the City of Sevierville does not discriminate based on race, color, ornation origin in federal or state sponsored, pursuant to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C.2000d)

Default having been made in the terms and conditions of payments, pursuant to a certain Deed of Trust executed by Gary Paul Hardy, married, to Kyle M. Walters, Trustee, dated the 11th day of June, 2007 and being of record in Book 2843, page 574, Register’s Office for Sevier County, Tennessee, referred to herein as the deed of trust, which conveyed certain real property, appurtenances, estate, title and interest therein in trust to secure the indebtedness described therein, which indebtedness is now due and unpaid and has been declared in default by the lawful owner thereof, Household Financial Center, Inc. Appointment of Substitute Trustee having been duly executed by the holder of the note and beneficiary of said Deed of Trust, and appointing William Timothy Hill as Substitute Trustee.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, William Timothy Hill, Trustee, pursuant to the said Deed of Trust, having been requested by the owner and holder of said indebtedness so to do, by virtue of the authority and power vested in me by said deed of trust and appointing of Substitute Trustee will on the 16th day of August, 2010, at 12:00 noon, on the front door of the Sevier County Courthouse, Sevierville, Sevier County, Tennessee, sell at public outcry to the highest bidder for cash (or credit upon the indebtedness secured, if the holder is the successful purchaser) the following described property located in Sevier County, Tennessee, to wit: Situate, lying and being in the fourth (4th) Civil District of Sevier County, Tennessee, and being Lot 9 of Spence Mountain as the same is shown by plat of record in Map Book 26, page 144, in the Register’s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee, to which plat specific reference is here made for a more particular description.

Being the same property conveyed to Gary Paul Hardy, married by deed recorded 12/11/02 in Book 1577, at page 596, in the Register’s Office of Sevier County, Tennessee.

This is improved property known as:

The sale is subject to liens, easements, encumbrances, property tax and other matters, if any, which are prior in right to the lien of the deed of trust subject of this foreclosure and declared to be in default by the lawful holder thereof.

The right is reserved to adjourn the day of the sale to another day, time, and place certain without further publication, upon announcement at the time and place for the sale set forth above. If the highest bidder cannot pay the bid within twenty-four (24) hours of the sale, the next highest bidder will be deemed the successful bidder.

This is an attempt to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Other interested parties: Beneficial Tennessee, Inc.; Sevier County Electric System This 21st day of July, 2010.

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Dear Annie: My sister, “Elaine,” has terminal cancer. Yesterday, I got a call from someone named “Laura” telling me Elaine had made arrangements to move in with a family from her church. I offered to let her come here and even said she could bring her elderly dog so they could spend her final months together. I did this even though I am allergic to dogs. However, I was told she only wanted me to take the dog.

This morning, I visited Elaine, who did not appear to be as bad as I had been led to believe.

Laura, a member of my sister’s church, was with her. I repeated my offer to take both Elaine and the dog, but was told emphatically that she was staying with a church family.

I am concerned that the “church” has an ulterior motive. I asked for information from hospice about Elaine’s care, but no one has gotten back to me and it’s been nearly a week. What should I do?

Elaine is an adult and competent. -- Sister in Waiting Dear Sister: Even if Laura’s motives are to get Elaine’s money for the church, there’s not much you can do if your sister is competent to make these decisions. Can you talk to Elaine directly?

If not and if she is under hospice care, someone from that organization should be visiting regularly, and you can direct your questions to them in person. If Laura is the only one caring for your sister, contact your local Area Agency on Aging or the Eldercare Locator (www.eldercare.gov) at 1-800-677-1116 and ask for assistance.

Dear Annie: I am a 15-year-old girl who lives in the middle of nowhere.

My 8-year-old brother, “Andrew,” is autistic, and I am the only person he connects with. Because of this, my mother often gives me responsibility for Andrew. I feel like I have to grow up quickly so I can take care of him.

Is my mom pushing him off on me, or am I being selfish because I want a life? -- Confused in the Country Dear Confused: Neither. Your mother recognizes that Andrew responds best to you, so she relies on you for his care. But you also are entitled to be 15. That means compromise.

Discuss this calmly with Mom, and ask for more time without Andrew. If your school has a counselor, you can use that person as a source of support, along with any adult relative or friend who can intercede on your behalf. You also can find support groups on the Internet and through the Autism Society of America (autism-society. org), which has a section on Family Issues that includes siblings of those with autism. Good luck.

Dear Annie: Like “Observer,” I have noticed that many young married couples have chosen to cut off grandparents. In my case, this was not a lightly chosen step.

Both my husband and I come from broken homes. In the first year

t o d ay ’ s p u z z l e

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Barney Google and Snuffy Smith

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of our son’s life, we made huge efforts to allow our parents into our lives.

But my mother associates with a drug-addicted boyfriend and insists on bringing him when she visits.

My mother-in-law has a history of involving the police when she gets into any argument she can’t win. We decided it was better not to have these toxic parents in our child’s life than to spend every moment protecting him.

We know one day our son will ask questions about his grandparents.

Meanwhile, we found foster grandparents and connected with many loving relatives. I hope one day our son will know that at the cost of his past, his father and I have given him a loving and supportive future. -Parentless Parent Dear Parent: We understand when grandparents are problematic and visits must be limited or supervised, but we hope you can still maintain some form of contact, even if it is just a photograph once a year.

You never know what the future will bring.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please e-mail your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045.

To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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The Mountain Press ◆ Monday, August 9, 2010

community calendar Editor’s Note: The community calendar is printed as space permits. Items must be submitted at least five days in advance.

Only noncommercial, public events held in Sevier County will be considered.

To place an item phone 4280748, ext. 214, or e-mail to editor@themountainpress. com. Items may be faxed to 453-4913.

monday, aug. 9 Hot Meals

Hot Meals For Hungry Hearts 5:30-6:30 p.m., Henderson Chapel Baptist Church, 407 Henderson Road, Pigeon Forge.

Sponsored by SMARM.

Women’s Bible Study

Garlands of Grace Women’s Bible study: n 1 p.m. Gatlinburg Inn. 436-0313. n 1 p.m. Seymour Heights Christian Church, Chapman and Boyds Creek n 6:30 p.m., Gatlinburg Call 436-0313 for location

Cancer Support Group

Smoky Mountain Cancer Support Group meets 6 p.m., Senior Center.

Martha Gilchrist, who worked at Pentagon when it was attacked Sept. 11, 2001, will speak. 428-5834 or 654-9280.

Nazarene Bible School

First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene vacation Bible school 6:308:30 p.m. through Aug. 13, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. For ages 5-12. 2302870.

Angel Food

before the G-P home game. Join the G-P Class of 2000 Facebook page for updates.

R.A.D. Class

The Sevierville Police Department has scheduled a nine-hour Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D.) class for women from 6-9 p.m. Aug. 10, 17 and 24 at Sevierville Civic Center.

Class is free. Taught by SPD Sgt. Rebecca Cowan and Sgt. David Finchum, both nationally certified R.A.D. instructors. To register call 868-1834.

United Methodist Church, 1828 Middle Creek Road, Pigeon Forge. 216-2066.

thursday, aug. 12 Active Parenting

Parenting classes for parents with children ages 6-12 and 13-18 years. 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Registration, 5 p.m.

Family Resource Center, Aug. 12, 19 and 26. Must attend all four sessions. $25 for one parent, $40 for couple. 428-7999.

Women’s Bible Study

Farmers market 8-11:30 a.m., Sevier Farmers Co-Op, 321 W. Main, Sevierville. 453-7101.

Garlands of Grace women’s Bible study: n 9 a.m. UMC Pigeon Forge n 2 p.m. Blue Mountain Mist B&B, Pullen Road n 6:30 p.m. Sevierville UMC, Conference Room

St. Paul Lutheran

Hot Meals

WEDNESday, aug. 11 Farmers Market

Events at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1610 Pullen Road, Sevierville.

429-6063. n The Ten Commandments sermon series, 7 p.m. n Ice cream social following 7 p.m. service. n Bible study: Walk Through the Bible. currently in Exodus.

Women’s Bible Study

Garlands of Grace women’s Bible study: n 10 a.m. Sugar Tree Road, Wears Valley. 4284932, n 9 a.m. Wellington Place. 429-5131

Middle Creek UMC

Worship services at 6:30 p.m. at Middle Creek

Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries provides hot meals 5:30-6:30 p.m., First United Methodist Sevierville and Kodak United Methodist. 9335996.

TOPS

TOPS weight loss chapter meets at 6 p.m., Parkway Church of God in Sevierville. 755-9517 or 429-3150.

Celebrate Recovery Celebrate Recovery, 6 p.m. Kodak United Methodist Church.

Childcare provided.

Angel Food

Angel Food orders: n 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Gum

Stand Baptist Church, 3031 Veterans Blvd. 4292508. n 10 a.m.-4 p.m. First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 9081245.

Pi Beta Phi

Open house-early registration for new or returning students, 5:307:30 p.m. at Wearwood Elementary. 453-2252.

Medic blood drive 10 a.m.-6 p.m., LeConte Medical Center. Inside classrooms. All donors will receive a coupon for a free Chick-fil-A sandwich, Tennessee Smokies T-shirt and a chance to win pair of Smokies home game tickets.

Angel Food

Student registration for Pi Beta Phi Elementary school 5 p.m. for grades 1-8. First day of school 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Aug. 16.

Parents of kindergarten students meet 5 p.m. Aug. 16.

Wearwood Elementary

Blood Drive

friday, aug. 13 Angel Food orders: n 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Gum Stand Baptist Church, 3031 Veterans Blvd. 4292508. n 1-6 p.m. First Smoky Mountain Church of the Nazarene, 2652 Upper Middle Creek Road. 9081245.

Stringtime

Stringtime in the Smokes 6:30 p.m. Old Mill Square, Bluegrass music 6:30 p.m. Continues noon5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 14. Champion Cloggers, Cherohala, and Phil Leadbetter and Friends.

Free admission.

St. Paul Lutheran

Women’s Friday Bible study 10 a.m., St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1610 Pullen Road, Sevierville.

429-6063.

Business Opportunities at the Shops at Brookside

Sevierville Intermediate

The Shops at Brookside (Adjacent to Bass Pro Shops)

Sevierville Intermediate School open house 5:30-7 p.m. Meet teachers, fill out paperwork and tour school.

Sevierville Primary School

Orientation for Sevierville Primary School Kindergarten 5 p.m.; first grade 5:30 p.m.; second grade 6 p.m. CDC 5 p.m.

Caton’s Chapel Elementary

Pricing Incentives:

Local Pancake House or Asian Restaurant space -$25,000 in improvement / equipment allowance -1 Year of Free Rent -No CAM during the first lease year -Must sign a 3 to 5 year lease

Office Tenants:

Real Estate, Dentist, Physical Therapy, Medical Office, Tourism Office, Rental / Mgmt Office, etc.

-Sign a 3 to 5 year lease -1 full year of free rent -No CAM during the first lease year

Retail:

Arts/Crafts, Pottery, Woodworking, Glass Blowing, Card Shop, Nail Salon, Beauty Salon, Appalachian Artist, Jewelry -Sign 3 year lease -First full year FREE RENT -No CAM for the initial lease year Base Rent: $16 - $22 PSF

Caton’s Chapel Elementary School early registration 6-8 p.m. for grades K-8. 453-2132.

Northview Middle School

4713 Papermill Drive, Suite 300, Knoxville, TN 37909

Josiah Glafenhein

Office: 865-531-6400 ext. 288 Direct: 865-862-5259 jglafenhein@rmmoore.com

Northview Middle School Orientation 5-7 p.m.

Maria Concannon

Office: 865-531-6400 ext. 225 Direct: 865-603-2838 mconcannon@rmmoore.com

FREE HEARING TESTS

HEARING AID SALE

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Angel Food orders: n 2-6 p.m., Gum Stand Baptist Church, 3031 Veterans Blvd. 429-2508.

Blood Drive

Medic blood drive 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Food City/ Sevierville. Bloodmobile.

All donors will receive a coupon for a free Chickfil-A sandwich, Tennessee Smokies T-shirt and a chance to win pair of Smokies home game tickets.

Students may pick up their schedules at Pigeon Forge High School at the following times and dates: n Seniors. 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Monday, Aug. 9: parking tickets available. n Juniors, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tuesday, Aug. 10 n Sophomores, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11 n Freshmen, 6 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 12, schedules and orientation.

Gatlinburg-Pittman High School students may pick up their schedules on the following days: Seniors, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

Monday Aug. 9. Seniors only may get their parking permit on that day. Cost $10.

Juniors, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

Tuesday Aug.10 Sophomores, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11 Freshmen Orientation 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12 in the auditorium. Parents are urged to attend.

Seniors In Touch (S.I.T.) meets 5-6 p.m. at MountainBrook Village, 700 Markhill Drive, Sevierville.

428-2445.

FINAL PRICE: $995 for 2

to visit us during our

Hearing open House FOR APPT. CALL:

(865) 577-3500

“Shark Tale” free at Anna Porter Public Library, 10 a.m.-noon.

Free, no-obligation video otoscope inspection, Hearing test & consultation Get a guided tour of your ear canal using a sophisticated, micro camera to see if easy-to-treat conditions exist such as ear wax.

Women’s Bible Study

Garlands of Grace women’s Bible study: n 1 p.m. Ski Mountain Road. 436-6434 for location n 6:30 p.m. Pigeon Forge UMC

We’ve Expanded our Office to Better Serve You! We are now located in the back of the Building.

Angel Food

Angel Food orders: n 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Gum Stand Baptist Church, 3031 Veterans Blvd. 429-2508.

Gatlinburg-Pittman Class of 2000 reunion, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 11, at Calhoun’s Banquet Hall.

Cost is $28 per person/ adults only. Registration deadline has been extended to Aug. 10.

Send payment to Leanne David. For further information call 436-3729.

Friday, Sept.10, meet at 6 p.m. and tour the school

$1990.00 – $995.00

Make an appointMent

Library Movie

GPHS Reunion

Audina FSS Manf. Sale

Coupon Expires 8/13/10. Previous sales excluded.

Audina FSS Model only.

TUESday, aug. 10 S.I.T.

BUY ONE/GET ONE

We offer 30 Day Trials!

Modern Hearing aid center

Low Monthly Payments Available!

10332 cHapMan Hwy, seyMour

(865) 577-3500

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700 Real Estate

300 Services

800 Mobile Homes

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"Full Time Service Coordinator" Now accepting applications for a position that includes maintenance dispatching and guest/owner services for a busy cabin rental company.

Schedule to be Thursday through Monday 9am-6pm (Tues/Wed off). Competitive pay based on experience, (typical starting pay $13/hr), paid vacation, insurance & a retirement plan.

REQUIRED SKILLS include excellent customer service, attention to detail, good written and verbal communication skills and computer knowledge. Applicants must be team players with positive attitudes.

Microsoft Word and Excel experience necessary, Access experience helpful.

Background check will apply.

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Vacation Specialist Large Vacation rental firm searching for customer minded individuals to assist visitors with their vacationing needs.

Applicants must possess great communication and clerical skills. Must also be willing to work nights and weekends.

Great team atmosphere & opportunities. Apply in person at Colonial Properties, 3049 Veterans Blvd. Pigeon Forge, TN. No phone calls please.

Breakfast cook needed at Buckhorn Inn located in Gatlinburg's Arts & Crafts Community. Applicants must be professional, punctual and team oriented. Call 436-4191 Gatlinburg church seeking part-time music director. Choral directing experience preferred. Send resume to PO Box 347, Gatlinburg TN 37786.

HOUSEKEEPER. Resort in Pigeon Forge looking for an experienced housekeeper for cabin and condo cleaning. Fax resume to (865)908-1247 or apply in person at Bear Run Falls, 610 Dollywood Lane, PF Riverstone Resort & Spa is now hiring for Front Desk Clerks & Relief Night Auditor.

Apply in person at 212 Dollywood Lane, Pigeon Forge, left at traffic light #8.

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Insight Publishing needs motivated person to market services by phone. All leads are provided. Great income potential & benefits available. Full time Monday-Friday, Fax resume to Jeanne Baach 429-4523 or email to jeanne@insightpublishing.com .

Nanny needed for 2 yr. old in my home. Light housework, references a must. Mon.-Fri., some weekends, Call Becky 865-654-0721.

Our fast paced rental company is in need of team players.

Must be self motivating with knowledge of basic computer programs and be willing to have a flexible working schedule from day shift to nights.

Must provide exceptional customer service while conveying company objectives, complete daily procedures, meet sales goals, multi task and work well with other depts. Competitive pay & Benefits. Mountain Rentals of Gatlinburg 436-9274 Ext. 2862 or 2853.

Part time clerk. Pepperidge Farm Thrift Outlet. Minimum age of 18 Apply at Tanger Mall, Sevierville Suite 380.

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